Do you know your Eliza from your Tay, and the other A.I. heroes and villains from sixty years of Artificial Intelligence? Well, here’s an updated and downloadable A.I. timeline infographic to refresh your memory (high-resolution PDFJPG). It’s taken from our upcoming SYZYGY international survey Public Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence: What Marketers Need to Know to be released on October 6 (let me know if you’re interested in a copy).
We’re surveying 6000 people across Europe and the USA to understand how people feel about A.I. today. The goal of the study is to help marketers, whether marketing A.I. or marketing with A.I., become more empathetic to people’s hopes, fears and meanings around this emerging technology.Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) timeline Infographic High-Resolution Download PDFJPG

1950 TURING TEST Computer scientist Alan Turing proposes a test for machine intelligence. If a machine can trick humans into thinking it is human, then it has intelligence

1955 A.I. BORN Term ‘artificial intelligence’ is coined by computer scientist, John McCarthy to describe “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines”

1961 UNIMATE First industrial robot, Unimate, goes to work at GM replacing humans on the assembly line